1 hr 9 min
Wonder Girls - Nobody Stan Ontology
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- Music Commentary
See and listen to just how Nobody will never change: the English music video, the Korean music video, the Japanese music video, the Mandarin Chinese music video, or the song release live stage performance. Onward to notes:
Wonder Girls' debut song, Irony.
Wonder Girls' contribution to the debt that K-pop owes to reggae.
I Feel You, which literally gives itself a "WTV" 1987 title even as there's an Mnet 2015 watermark in the corner.
"Do you remember? When JYP tried really, really hard to break into the US?" asks JYP on his and Sunmi's new duet, When We Disco.
Happy 20th debut anniversary, BoA! Go give Listen To My Heart a... listen.
This episode owes a lot to the K-pendium piece on Nobody. RIP K-pendium; Taemin might have gotten me (Claudia) into K-pop, but it was K-pendium that made me stay. Yes I'm a big nerd.
Watch them open for the Jonas Brothers with us.
The silences in our reactions were live, and I only regret we did not film our faces so we could insert some choice facial expressions.
Even listening to this back through is stressful, yeesh.
Also, this explains why Western camera crews are so very bad at filming K-pop group performances - they keep trying to focus on the singer, which for a K-pop choreo, has no strong relationship to who or what your eye should be focusing on.
Jason Nevins was responsible for this "slur of a remix". 🙉🙅♀️🚫 DO NOT LISTEN ️🚫🙅♀🙉 And when you do, remember we warned you.
The slightly better other remix is the soft acoustic Rainstone Remix.
CORRECTION: New York and New Jersey also have a large population of Korean-Americans - but still, California has the largest population.
For our money, the superior SuperM track from their first EP is still Super Car. Incidentally, that video is also a good example of "Western cameramen struggle with K-pop performances".
GOD I hoped we could sidestep OPPAN GANGNAM STYLE but no.
Again I fervently hope that the mainstream comedy scene I grew up in HK with has moved past "ha ha middle aged fat man tries to be cool". I sure know that's still a thing in the States right now.
As always, remember to follow @StanOntology on Twitter for the latest episode updates. If you have any questions you'd like to send in, direct them to us on Twitter!
See and listen to just how Nobody will never change: the English music video, the Korean music video, the Japanese music video, the Mandarin Chinese music video, or the song release live stage performance. Onward to notes:
Wonder Girls' debut song, Irony.
Wonder Girls' contribution to the debt that K-pop owes to reggae.
I Feel You, which literally gives itself a "WTV" 1987 title even as there's an Mnet 2015 watermark in the corner.
"Do you remember? When JYP tried really, really hard to break into the US?" asks JYP on his and Sunmi's new duet, When We Disco.
Happy 20th debut anniversary, BoA! Go give Listen To My Heart a... listen.
This episode owes a lot to the K-pendium piece on Nobody. RIP K-pendium; Taemin might have gotten me (Claudia) into K-pop, but it was K-pendium that made me stay. Yes I'm a big nerd.
Watch them open for the Jonas Brothers with us.
The silences in our reactions were live, and I only regret we did not film our faces so we could insert some choice facial expressions.
Even listening to this back through is stressful, yeesh.
Also, this explains why Western camera crews are so very bad at filming K-pop group performances - they keep trying to focus on the singer, which for a K-pop choreo, has no strong relationship to who or what your eye should be focusing on.
Jason Nevins was responsible for this "slur of a remix". 🙉🙅♀️🚫 DO NOT LISTEN ️🚫🙅♀🙉 And when you do, remember we warned you.
The slightly better other remix is the soft acoustic Rainstone Remix.
CORRECTION: New York and New Jersey also have a large population of Korean-Americans - but still, California has the largest population.
For our money, the superior SuperM track from their first EP is still Super Car. Incidentally, that video is also a good example of "Western cameramen struggle with K-pop performances".
GOD I hoped we could sidestep OPPAN GANGNAM STYLE but no.
Again I fervently hope that the mainstream comedy scene I grew up in HK with has moved past "ha ha middle aged fat man tries to be cool". I sure know that's still a thing in the States right now.
As always, remember to follow @StanOntology on Twitter for the latest episode updates. If you have any questions you'd like to send in, direct them to us on Twitter!
1 hr 9 min